Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.